Billionaire wilderness : the ultra-wealthy and the remaking of the American West /
"Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest cou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: setting off into the wilderness
- Part I. How we got here and what it feels like
- New nation of the ultra-wealthy
- Mount billionaire
- Part II. Using nature to solve economic dilemmas
- Compensation conservation
- Connoisseur conservation
- Gilded green philanthropy
- Moneyfest destiny
- Part III. Using rural people to solve social dilemmas
- Becoming rural poor, naturally
- Guilt numbed
- Part IV. Ultra-wealth through the eyes of the working poor
- No time for judgment
- Cracking the veneer
- Epilogue: the future of wealth and the west.